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MONTREAL - He was always an eloquent orator, a quick-witted charmer, the boy wonder with a mop of curls and a big dream to be prime minister of Canada.
But stubbornness — some go so far as to call Jean Charest pigheaded — would eventually prove to be his undoing, sometimes causing this consummate political animal to dig in his heels when common sense demanded contrition, compromise or a noble retreat.
Meanwhile, the long shadows of Quebec sovereignty and the constitution, its unruly and demanding stepsister, would dog Charest through his 28 years in public service, from his early days as the youngest cabinet minister in Canadian history to his announcement Wednesday that he would be stepping down as Liberal leader, after a bitter loss of both his seat in Sherbrooke and his gamble to become the first Quebec premier to win four mandates since Maurice Duplessis.
"There is a lesson to be drawn from this episode in our history, during one of the most crucial exercises in our democracy," Charest, 54, said Wednesday as he offered condolences to the families of victims of a gunman who killed one man and wounded another in an chilling attempted attack on Premier-elect Pauline Marois. "What we saw reminded us of the fragility of our lives."
Fragility, yes, but also the serendipity of a political career marked by stops and starts, its successes curbed by his own blunders and those over which he had no control.
One of five children born to Claude "Red" Charest and Rita Leonard, an anglophone of Irish descent, Charest was born on the Fête nationale, St. Jean Baptiste Day. He studied at École Montcalm and the Séminaire de Sherbrooke. Fluently bilingual, he enjoys telling the story about when he was a boy in Sherbrooke going to French school.
When he came home upset one day, his mother asked him what was wrong. Young Jean said some other kids called him a "maudit anglais."
His mother looked at him and said, "Jean, don't let them ever, ever call you English. You're Irish."
Charest obtained his law degree from the Université de Sherbrooke in 1980. That summer, he spent three months working on a ship in the merchant marine operating between Sault Ste. Marie and Windsor, Ont. He says he did that so he could earn enough money to come back for three days and marry Michèle Dionne, his high school sweetheart. The couple have three children — Amélie, now expecting their first grandchild, Antoine and Alexandra.
Charest was just 26 when he was first elected to Parliament as Brian Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives swept to power with a stable of new MPs from Quebec and a promise to bring Quebec into the constitutional fold. Eager, ambitious and a sharp debater, the young man from the Townships soon made an impression in Ottawa — even if he was boyish enough to be mistaken for the MP's assistant.
He was 28 in June 1986 when he was named minister of sport and youth, becoming the youngest cabinet minister in Canadian history. But in January 1990, he was forced to resign after he admitted he had called a judge who was about to rule on a case involving an amateur athlete. Mulroney turfed Charest from cabinet but it was clear political purgatory would be temporary.
As the Meech Lake Accord, Mulroney's bold move to meet Quebec's constitutional demands, began to flounder, Charest was recruited to head up a team to come up with a rescue plan to avert a mutiny headed by none other than Mulroney's old friend and law school pal, Lucien Bouchard. But the move backfired when Quebec Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa rejected the Charest report and a disgruntled Bouchard left to form what became the Bloc Québécois.
For his loyal service, Mulroney brought Charest back into the cabinet the following year. As environment minister, he touted a Green Plan and was Canada's voice at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.
After the Meech Lake Accord was defeated, and with Mulroney on his way out, Charest ran for the party leadership, coming second to Justice Minister Kim Campbell. However, come the election in October 1993, Charest would be one of only two Tory MPs still standing.
As Quebec prepared for a second referendum on sovereignty-association, Charest was recruited to add fire and brimstone as leader of the federalist No camp, using his gift for oratory and his reliable prop — a Canadian passport — to stir up pride in being Canadian and terror of the alternatives.
He was that all-too-rare Quebec politician who was never embarrassed to say he was a federalist, that he loved Canada and thought you should, too.
But after a few years as the lonely leader of a two-person caucus, the man who only ever wanted to be prime minister of Canada was ready to trade horses — taking on the daunting task at the helm of the Quebec Liberals as opposition leader against his old foe Lucien Bouchard. In 2003, the wager paid off as his Liberals defeated the Parti Québécois, the first of three wins and nine years of Liberal government.
As Quebec premier, Jean Charest often found himself on the wrong side of public opinion. And when did, his stubborn streak would have him dig in more deeply.
Suroît, Mont-Orford and the 2005 student loan crisis are examples.
More recently, Charest refused for 2 ½ years to call a public inquiry into corruption and collusion in the construction industry, before his hand was forced by Jacques Duchesneau's report confirming suspicions of collusion to rig bids on Transport Quebec contracts.
Now the Coalition Avenir Québec MNA for St-Jérôme, Duchesneau said he decided to run for the CAQ early in the election campaign when Charest gave himself an 8/10 grade for fighting corruption.
Spurred by Duchesneau, the premier agreed to a public inquiry.
But at first, Charest gave the Charbonneau Commission no powers. When that position became untenable, he recast the inquiry under the public inquiries act at the demand of Justice France Charbonneau, with the proper powers.
The tuition crisis this year, critics argued, was drawn out by Charest's refusal to consider mediation, as Liberal godfather Claude Castonguay, among others, had suggested.
Tax expert Luc Godbout also suggested that had Charest done a better job of selling it, the students would have realized, after the government's concessions, that they had won.
Instead, Charest went into the Sept. 4 election campaign re-fighting the tuition battle. And it turned out the "silent majority" he counted on brought his Liberals within 0.7 per cent of the PQ vote, although not enough to reverse his defeat.
Suroït, early in Charest's first term as premier, was a proposed natural-gas-fired electricity-generating plant that united environmentalists, local governments, and religious orders against the Charest government.
Charest ignored the protests for months, finally backing down, and sacrificing Sam Hamad, who as Liberal natural resources minister took the rap.
The 2005 student-loan crisis was set off when students noticed the Charest government was transforming bursaries, grants that don't have to be paid back, into loans, that must be repaid.
The red square, or "carré rouge," movement began then.
The strike was finally resolved when the students pointed out that Ottawa had agreed to make up the student-loan shortfall, getting Charest and his then education minister Jean-Marc Fournier, off the hook.
Mont-Orford was a fatal mixture of good intentions and misreading public opinion.
Charest wanted to help the town of Magog, near his Sherbrooke riding. Magog has never recovered from the closure of its textile mills. His solution? Privatize the mountain portion of Parc Mont-Orford, to allow the construction of luxury condos.
The battle pitted former Quebec Liberal president Robert Benoît, environmentalists and local residents against the premier.
Tom Mulcair — fellow Irishman, friend of Charest, they often joked together in the National Assembly —was environment minister and disagreed with the sell-off of the provincial park land.
Their differences went public — behind the closed doors of the Liberal caucus — but reporters knew that drawn out caucus meetings, punctuated by occasional shouting, were about Mulcair and Charest duking it out.
After one such meeting, the two shook hands for the cameras. But their venomous glances betrayed their true feelings.
Charest quietly removed Mulcair as a Liberal candidate before the 2007 election, which Charest nearly lost.
Charest was then forced, by his minority position, to back down on Orford.
But Mulcair moved on to win the Outremont federal by-election, becoming the sole NDP MP in Quebec.
With Mulcair as Jack Layton's Quebec lieutenant, the NDP won 59 Quebec seats in the 2011 election and now as federal NDP leader, Mulcair has a good shot at becoming prime minister of Canada, the job so long coveted by Charest.
When Charest's Liberals were first elected in 2003, their motto was "We're ready" after nine years of PQ government — to turn the corner, to change.
He formed Quebec's first gender-equal cabinet in 2007. In May 2011, Charest launched the Plan Nord, an $80 billion, 25-year plan to develop Quebec's far north and create 20,000 jobs. While the development plan has been criticized, both of the main opposition parties have said they would retain the plan in some form if they are elected.
On Tuesday, Quebec voters were once again ready to try something new — although with popular vote split almost evenly among the three parties, exactly what that change should be seems kind of fuzzy.
For Charest, though, the time is ripe to do something else. With a tear in his eye, he said, as defeated politicians so often do, that he wants to spend more time with his wife, children and the grandchild on the way. For once, it seemed like the politician really meant it.
But at 54, Charest is still young as politicians go — he was the youngest of the three main leaders vying to be premier. He may well have another surprise up his sleeve and fire in his belly.
"We are all blessed to have been born in this country, to share its wealth, and we're blessed to have each other."


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Taylor Swift was named teen fans' "Ultimate Choice" Sunday night—not to mention their favorite for Female Artist, Country Artist, Country Single, Breakup Song and Red Carpet Fashion Icon.
"I am so happy," she said of her first trip to the Teen Choice Awards, as she accepted her prize, a giant surfboard. "And this is amazing."
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Though she is only 21, the country-pop superstar decided to dispense some advice.
"You know, it's been a long time since I was a teenager, like two years," she joked Sunday night, before adding: "When I was a teenager, I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being very intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, and now in retrospect I think that I need to let you know that I think all of those things are amazing things."
She told the teens, "I hope you never lose those things, and I'm so honored that you so passionately chose to give me this award."
Swift won the Ultimate Choice Award for her "extraordinary contributions to the entertainment industry."
Previous winners of the award, which is not given out every year, include Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Sarah Michelle Gellar, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Another big winner on the awards show was Selena Gomez, who took two individual honors—"Choice Actress" and "Choice Hottie"—and three with her band, The Scene. One of their wins was for "Love You Like a Love Song," which she performed.
Her beau Justin Bieber won four times, including for "Choice Male Artist," "Choice Male Hottie," and "Choice Twit."
The awards show was held at Universal Studios Hollywood's Gibson Amphitheatre and aired on Fox.
Additional nods went to "Glee," the final two "Harry Potter" movies and some of their stars, Taylor Lautner and Robert Pattinson. For more of the 2011 winners, see The Hollywood Reporter's list.
Ashton Kutcher won "Choice Movie Actor – Romantic Comedy" for his cinematic masterpiece "No Strings Attached."
On stage he said he's won 14 of the awards, "or something."
He then led the crowd in a full-throated rendition of Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream."
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — HOW'S my kid going to get a job? There are few questions I hear more often than that one. In February, I interviewed Laszlo Bock, who is in charge of all hiring at Google — about 100 new hires a week — to try to understand what an employer like Google was looking for and why it was increasingly ready to hire people with no college degrees. Bock's remarks generated a lot of reader response, particularly his point that prospective bosses today care less about what you know or where you learned it — the Google machine knows everything now — than what value you can create with what you know. With graduations approaching, I went back to Google to ask Bock to share his best advice for job-seekers anywhere, not just at Google. Here is a condensed version of our conversations:
You're not saying college education is worthless?
"My belief is not that one shouldn't go to college," said Bock. It is that among 18- to 22-year-olds — or people returning to school years later — "most don't put enough thought into why they're going, and what they want to get out of it." Of course, we want an informed citizenry, where everyone has a baseline of knowledge from which to build skills. That is a social good. But, he added, don't just go to college because you think it is the right thing to do and that any bachelor's degree will suffice. "The first and most important thing is to be explicit and willful in making the decisions about what you want to get out of this investment in your education." It's a huge investment of time, effort and money and people should think "incredibly hard about what they're getting in return."
Once there, said Bock, make sure that you're getting out of it not only a broadening of your knowledge but skills that will be valued in today's workplace. Your college degree is not a proxy anymore for having the skills or traits to do any job.
What are those traits? One is grit, he said. Shuffling through résumés of some of Google's 100 hires that week, Bock explained: "I was on campus speaking to a student who was a computer science and math double major, who was thinking of shifting to an economics major because the computer science courses were too difficult. I told that student they are much better off being a B student in computer science than an A+ student in English because it signals a rigor in your thinking and a more challenging course load. That student will be one of our interns this summer."
Or, he added, think of this headline from The Wall Street Journal in 2011: "Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay." This was an article about a student who switched from electrical and computer engineering to a major in psychology. She said she just found the former too difficult and would focus instead on a career in public relations and human resources. "I think this student was making a mistake," said Bock, even if it meant lower grades. "She was moving out of a major where she would have been differentiated in the labor force" and "out of classes that would have made her better qualified for other jobs because of the training."
This is key for Bock because the first thing Google looks for "is general cognitive ability — the ability to learn things and solve problems," he said. In that vein, "a knowledge set that will be invaluable is the ability to understand and apply information — so, basic computer science skills. I'm not saying you have to be some terrific coder, but to just understand how [these] things work you have to be able to think in a formal and logical and structured way." But that kind of thinking doesn't have to come from a computer science degree. "I took statistics at business school, and it was transformative for my career. Analytical training gives you a skill set that differentiates you from most people in the labor market."
A lot of work, he added, is no longer tied to location. "So if you want your job tied to where you are, you need to be: A) quite good at it; and B) you need to be very adaptable so that you have a baseline skill set that allows you to be a call center operator today and tomorrow be able to interpret MRI scans. To have built the skill set that allows you to do both things requires a baseline capability that's analytical."
Well, what about creativity?
Bock: "Humans are by nature creative beings, but not by nature logical, structured-thinking beings. Those are skills you have to learn. One of the things that makes people more effective is if you can do both. ... If you're great on both attributes, you'll have a lot more options. If you have just one, that's fine, too." But a lot fewer people have this kind of structured thought process and creativity.
Are the liberal arts still important?
They are "phenomenally important," he said, especially when you combine them with other disciplines. "Ten years ago behavioral economics was rarely referenced. But [then] you apply social science to economics and suddenly there's this whole new field. I think a lot about how the most interesting things are happening at the intersection of two fields. To pursue that, you need expertise in both fields. You have to understand economics and psychology or statistics and physics [and] bring them together. You need some people who are holistic thinkers and have liberal arts backgrounds and some who are deep functional experts. Building that balance is hard, but that's where you end up building great societies, great organizations."
How do you write a good résumé?
"The key," he said, "is to frame your strengths as: 'I accomplished X, relative to Y, by doing Z.' Most people would write a résumé like this: 'Wrote editorials for The New York Times.' Better would be to say: 'Had 50 op-eds published compared to average of 6 by most op-ed [writers] as a result of providing deep insight into the following area for three years.' Most people don't put the right content on their résumés."
What's your best advice for job interviews?
"What you want to do is say: 'Here's the attribute I'm going to demonstrate; here's the story demonstrating it; here's how that story demonstrated that attribute.' " And here is how it can create value. "Most people in an interview don't make explicit their thought process behind how or why they did something and, even if they are able to come up with a compelling story, they are unable to explain their thought process."
For parents, new grads and those too long out of work, I hope some of this helps.


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There has been a lot of talk recently about how to cool computers operating in everything from a stand-alone environment to a data center. The core of many of those plans involves a water-cooled system, sometimes working as far down as the individual processor. A lot of the higher-end systems that we've recently reviewed on GCN have had water cooling as a central component.
The biggest problem with water cooling is that by nature it takes up a large chunk of internal real estate. There are tubes to direct the water, a flat plane that touches the processor to pull away the heat, some type of a large pumping apparatus, a water reservoir and sometimes a supplemental power supply. Computer cases that aren't natively designed to accept them are hard to work with. And sometimes there simply isn't enough room for the upgrade.
That is why it was interesting to find the new Enermax Fulmo series of desktop housings, including both the Fulmo and Fulmo GT Series, which puts cooling needs for high-performance systems front and center. Besides having a large pocket of space specifically for a water cooling area, it also supports full frontal mesh cases for improved airflow and the ability to add up to 15 fans for a true torrent of cooling.
The Fulmo ST features a three-dimensional black iron mesh for optimal cooling and an overall exciting visual effect. For a fully covered chassis like the Fulmo ST, the visually striking grill mesh allows for superior ventilation for cooling. And there is 32mm of clearance for backside cable routing. On the side is a full-cover acrylic side panel, which can allow for visual inspection of any sensors or monitors inside the case.
At the top of the chassis there is space for a total of four USB ports along with I/O support and an integrated LED illuminated Fan Speed Adjustment controller and On/Off switch. The dual internal USB 3.0 ports will work with the SuperSpeed transfer ability.
By supporting eight 3.5 or 2.5-inch +1 expansion slots, the Fulmo ST's has terrific potential for expansion compared to other chassis of the same class. With this setup there can be up to three dual slot VGA cards installed. In addition to that, after taking out the removable HDD cage, the case gives users up to 412mm of clearance for a full-sized, high-end VGA card.
On the very top of the case there is a large 60mm cleared area for a full-sized water cooling system with a 280/240mm radiator or 2 x 14/12cm fans. To maximize the cooling performance, the Enermax Fulmo ST can be installed with a maximum of 10 fans. And there is a bottom-mounted PSU slot with rubber pads and removable dust filter to help keep the power supply clean. Lastly, the new Enermax SlideIn locker gives users easy tool-free component installation.
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|September 05, 2013
Demand cools as fight rages over coal-export terminals
|Back in 2011, when SSA Marine laid out plans for a major coal-export terminal in Northwest Washington, international markets were on a tear as the demand for coal pushed prices to record levels.
But this summer, export prices have plunged by more than 40 percent, prompting some coal-export projects in Australia to be scaled back or scuttled.
That's raising new questions about the prospect for large-scale exports from the proposed SSA Marine terminal at Cherry Point in Whatcom County and a second terminal proposed for Longview in Southwest Washington.
Environmentalists, trying to block efforts to turn the region into a center for coal exports, are mounting a major campaign against the projects.
The big drop in export prices reflects an oversupply of coal and diminished demand as China has reduced imports amid an economic slowdown.
Some financial analysts suggest coal-export markets face a prolonged downturn that reflects fundamental changes in the markets.
Goldman Sachs, in a research report released earlier this summer, declared that "the window for profitable investment in coal mining (for export) is closing."
The Longview and Cherry Point terminals combined would have the capacity to export more than 90 million tons of coal a year.
Both terminal projects have to navigate lengthy federal, state and local permit processes before any construction can begin. And developers are hopeful that markets, by then, will have improved.
"The market for any bulk product will fluctuate, but our perspective is that we will be making a long-term investment in Longview. We believe strongly that demand for electricity in the developing world will continue to grow and so will the demand for coal from the United States," said Ken Miller, president of Millennium Bulk Terminals.
Bob Watters, a senior vice president of SSA Marine, which is developing the Cherry Point terminal, said weak coal markets could affect project funding.
But efforts to put together a financing deal are still several years away.
"That's why I don't get too concerned about what's going on right now," Watters said.
International prices, as measured by an Australian benchmark that's considered a key industry indicator, have dipped below $80 a ton this summer.
That's far below peak prices of more than $140 a ton reached in 2011. At that time, developers were piecing together proposals to export coal from the Powder River basin that runs through Montana and Wyoming.
Much of the run-up in prices occurred as China, which has rapidly built coal plants to help power a dramatic economic expansion, bought international coal to supplement its vast reserves.
But some analysts suggest that China, in the years ahead, is unlikely to push up prices with a big surge in buying on international markets.
"Coal demand in China is about to start falling, and ... the global thermal coal market will never recover," declared a recent report by Bernstein Research, which provides analysis for investors.
The report predicts China would stop importing coal in 2015 and begin decommissioning coal plants and replacing them with nuclear and renewable-energy plants during the second half of this decade.
The Goldman Sachs report called 2013 a "watershed year for global coal markets," and predicted that export coal markets will continue to be characterized by ample supply and lackluster demand in the short to medium term -- and that prices will eventually be capped at $85 a ton "for the foreseeable future."
Wood Mackenzie, another energy-consulting firm that tracks the coal industry, has a substantially more upbeat outlook. Its researchers predict that Asian demand for coal, as it increases over time, will shore up the export market.
"In the long term, Asian economic growth is still going to be robust, and that is the number-one story," said Andy Roberts, an analyst for Wood Mackenzie.
By 2035, Wood Mackenzie forecasts that more than 420?million tons of Powder River coal could be exported annually.
Yet even Wood Mackenzie doesn't predict that exports prices based on the Australian benchmark will bounce back anytime soon.
Their analysts predict the benchmark won't fetch more than $100 a ton in real prices until 2023 or 2024. Roberts notes that forecast will be revised to reflect lower Asian growth.
The U.S. coal industry also faces uncertainties on the home front, with President Obama calling for new regulations to control carbon-dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, from existing coal plants.
In the Pacific Northwest, the proposals are generating one of the more heated environmental battles of recent years, with opponents arguing the region shouldn't be in the business of exporting a resource that is a major contributor to global warming.
Last week, researchers from three organizations -- Sightline Institute, Climate Solutions and Greenpeace -- highlighted the downturn in coal markets during a news conference.
"There is no question that the U.S. coal companies need Asian markets for Powder River coal. The key question is, do Asian markets need Powder River coal?" said Ross MacFarlane, a senior adviser at Climate Solutions.
"What is clear is that these companies are betting on, and praying for, a market rise in international prices," said Clark Williams-Derry, of the Sightline Institute.
One of the major Western coal players in the domestic and international export markets -- Cloud Peak Energy -- in August opted not to bid to develop 145 million tons of federal coal adjacent to its Cordero Rojo site in Wyoming, a move that surprised some industry observers.
"We carefully evaluated the estimated economics of this ... in light of current market conditions and the uncertainty caused by the current political and regulatory environment toward coal and coal-powered generation and ultimately decided it was prudent not to bid at this time," said Colin Marshall, Cloud Peak's president and chief executive officer, in a written statement.
It was the first time that a federal tract in Wyoming had failed to draw any bidders.
Rick Curtsinger, a Cloud Peak spokesman, said the decision not to bid on the coal reflected concerns about the ability to profitably mine the coal for sale to U.S. power producers, which would be the primary market for Wyoming coal.
Cloud Peak's export coal comes from a corporate mine in Montana, which now sends the coal to Asia via a British Columbia port but eventually hopes to ship coal through Cherry Point.
In a July interview with analysts, Marshall said the current low prices in international markets "leave little export margin, but the sales remain profitable overall."
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The majority of American's regularly have sex in just a few positions. Well, if that's true, it's time to shake things up! This article is on g-spot positions. These are our favorite ways of hitting the g-spot during sex.
I read the other day that the majority of American's regularly have sex in just a few positions. Well, if that's true, its time to shake things up! This article is on g spot positions. These are our favorite ways of hitting the g-spot during sex.
If you like boring, normal sex, that lasts just 5-10 minutes, don't read this page. If you're feeling more adventurous, and are ready to blow your mind then please, proceed!
So, the first step in hitting your g spot during sex is to know where it is! For a refresher course, check out this page on the g spot location. You also may want to try a finding the g spot exercise first.
From here on, we're going to assume that you (and your partner) know where your g-spot is, and how to best stimulate it to give you pleasure.
Now that that's all taken care of - lets focus on g spot positions. The first step is to recognize that the g spot, or g spot area, is small and not always in the same place. So, throughout your sex you'll both need to be communicating. What works, what feels good, what doesn't, a little to the right, a little to the left, etc.
In the beginning, as you explore different g spot positions, its likely best if you agree not to have orgasms. We've found this makes it easy to have a sense of exploration and play.
And, without further delay, here are our three favorite g spot positions. Enjoy!
Ride Em Cowboy (Woman on Top)
I have to say there's something so sexy about a woman being on top, in charge of finding what feels the best. Really, this position is ideal because it allows the woman to control the depth, intensity, and speed. It gives you the ability to play, and explore, and notice how much more pleasure comes from subtle differences.
As you are on top, experiment with what feel's best to you. Move, shift, tell your partner what feel's good, rock back and forth, take it deep, keep it shallow, etc. This will likely work best if you are already aroused and hot. (This is true with all these g spot positions)
Now, as the guy in this position, you're not just laying back passively (thought that is fine to do - just not now!). What will help your partner most is if you tilt your pelvis as much as possible. The more you can do this, the better.
You'll also get a great workout! : )
Unfortunately, if you are anything like me, you'll get super tired super quick. In the beginning we used to use alot of pillows to try to angle my hips. Lately, we've really been enjoying something called the wedge, its a liberator shape. This small shape puts your pelvis in the perfect tilted position without you having to do any work.
I know it sounds crazy, but the small, subtle positioning this enables, makes all the difference.
Doggy Style (Crouching, Man Coming from Behind)
This is one of our favorite g spot positions. Not only do you have great g-spot access, but there?s just something so primal andsexy about & ! from behind.
Now, guys, in this position you can take it easy and let her do all the work. In this case, ladies, use your thighs to press back and find the depth, thrust style, and position that works best for you.
However, guys, if you want to be more active, you can easily adapt this position. Push your woman down, and lay more on top of her (still coming in from behind)
Now, for the best g spot stimulation, position your legs outside of hers and put more of your weight forward, so you are riding her from up higher.
This puts your penis on more of a downward angle, and helps you hit her g-spot more directly. You can also experiment with having her legs more open, or more closed to see what feels best.
We've also been using the liberator shape - the wedge - in this position too. We found if we put that underneath my girlfriend, it gives her hips a particular tilt that totally amp things up.
Your Highness (Man Kneeling or Standing, Woman's Legs on His Shoulders)
We love this sex position. With many g spot positions you can't look each other in the eyes. With this one, we recommend it. Also, when you want to hit the g spot, having your legs high and wide is the secret ingredient. Sometimes putting your feet on your partner's shoulders can be the most comfortable (its also just super sexy!)
Now, you can do this position in lots of ways. You can do it off your sofa, a chair, or your coffee table (we won't tell!). Or, you can modify it to work off your bed by kneeling vs standing. The only real key to this position is that your partner is angled upward, with her legs spread wide or on your shoulders. You can achieve this combination in lots of different ways (be creative!)
Well, these are our three favorite g spot positions, and I hope you try them out and enjoy!
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Find and explore your g spot. Enjoy amazing sex and a better relationship. Find tips, techniques, and exercises written by a real couple.
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what're the odds of H reusing the arms for Ponda/Walrus man?
I know I've done my share of Rebel pilot bashing the past couple years, but I say bring this one on! It's got more variety than simple head swaps due to the new arms (which do look long, hopefully it's just the angle) and should look good in our Dagobah scenes. Plus I like the idea of more pilots without gloves for dioramas, maybe working on their ships and whatnot.
looks like they're using the 06 Vintage X-Wing Pilot Luke headsculpt rather than the superior Bespin Luke headsculpt from the ESB wave
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May 12, 2014 -- A second patient in the U.S. has been identified as having the potentially deadly virus known as MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome), the CDC announced today.
The patient, like the first one identified earlier this month, is also a health care worker who lives and works in Saudi Arabia. The patient was visiting family in the U.S. He is now in good condition in an Orlando-area hospital. "The patient is isolated and doing well," Tom Frieden, MD, director of the CDC, said at a news conference.
CDC and Florida public health officials declined to identify the new patient or to provide the patient's gender. The patient traveled by plane from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to London May 1, then on to Boston, Atlanta, and Orlando.
The patient went to the emergency room on May 8. The CDC confirmed the MERS tests results on Sunday evening.
Over the next few days, public health officials will notify roughly 500 passengers who were on the U.S. legs of the flights, alerting them to be aware of possible symptoms and to seek medical help if they notice any.
The general public is at low risk for contracting the virus, said Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. She also spoke at the news conference. "The virus has not shown the ability to spread from person to person in a community setting. It has been really universally [found] in people who have had very close contact."
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Worldwide, she said, about one-fifth of the MERS cases have occurred in health care workers.
After you're exposed to the virus, symptoms appear about 5 days later, Schuchat said, ''with an outer limit of 14." So most of those passengers on the same May 1 flights as the Orlando patient would be expected to have developed symptoms by now, she said.
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LNP's plunge in popularity unprecedented: expert
The dramatic plunge in the Queensland government's popularity is unprecedented for a newly elected government with such a mandate, says one of the state's leading political scientists.
Dr Paul Williams, a senior lecturer in politics and journalism with Griffith University, who has studied Australian politics over the past three decades, said he was "hard pressed" to think of any government, state or federal, where the honeymoon period had soured so quickly.
Dr Williams said the unpopularity of the Campbell Newman government's public service austerity measures and to a lesser extent the same issues with his coalition counterparts in Victoria and New South Wales had put federal Labor back in the game.
His comments followed the resignation from the party of one of the LNP's biggest backers, Queensland's richest man, Clive Palmer, who launched a blistering attack on the state government on Friday.
Labelling Mr Newman "Caesar", Mr Palmer previously one of the premier's biggest supporters, said he had quit the party "due to an arrogant disregard for accountability which has made the LNP organisation redundant" and opined that the rights of citizens "were never so much in danger as they are at the current time".
"I just want to say to you now that the current government is much worse than anything that was around at the time of the Fitzgerald inquiry," he told reporters.
However when pressed or evidence, he offered none, explaining that it was just the "environment" which surrounded the government.
The LNP has attempted to shrug off Mr Palmer's attack, while deputy premier, Jeff Seeney, who has had a fractious relationship with the mining billionaire in recent months, characterised Mr Palmer as suffering from sour grapes following a decision regarding the Galilee basin rail corridor which did not go his way.
But Dr Williams said Mr Palmer's resignation and latest outburst, while in the short term embarrassing for Mr Newman and his parliamentary team, could have a wider impact with the "ordinary grassroots people" within the LNP, who sympathise with the larger issue that Mr Palmer was alluding to.
"I think for those people who are disillusioned with the first six months of the Newman Government, this will strike a chord with them, maybe especially in people who voted for the LNP," he said.
While Dr Williams said there was "virtually zero chance" of the LNP losing office in 2015, and the state Labor party should "count themselves lucky" if they returned to office in three parliaments' time, he added that Mr Newman's future as premier was less certain.
On a federal level, he said, the race for The Lodge had become much closer.
Mr Newman holds the inner-west seat of Ashgrove by 5.5 per cent.
"I have heard this around the traps as well, that Federal Labor is feeling a lot better about Queensland federal seats and Tony Abbott's camp is worried about the Newman factor.
"And it is not just Queensland, they are worried about the [Barry] O'Farrell factor and the [Ted] Baillieu factor in Victoria. All three governments have had public sector cutbacks," Dr Williams said.
"They are worried about the impact the state's austerity measures will have on the federal coalition votes, to the point where a few months ago, Labor didn't think they would win any seats in Queensland and they even thought they could lose Kevin Rudd's seat of Griffith.
"But the latest feeling I can gather, what people are telling me, is that not only are they confident of holding all their seats, but they might pick one up and that is the seat of Brisbane.''
Brisbane is currently held by the LNP's Teresa Gambaro, who won the inner-metropolitan seat with a swing of 5.73 per cent in 2010.
LNP Party President Bruce McIver, meanwhile, rejected suggestions that the party had problems on ABC's 7:30 report, saying he "fully supported Campbell Newman and his team".
"We have a very good government and we are excited by some of the things that have already happened and also his plans, here today [Friday] at the state executive he has outlined some of his further plans and we are excited for them."
Mr McIver said the party was focused on its members and supporters and maintaining integrity.
"It is more important for us to have our integrity and accountability. That is what this party has been built on for the past four years, brand LNP has high integrity under my leadership and will continue to do so.
"The membership of this party will continue to drive this party and have since day one and will continue to do so."
He told the program Mr Palmer's attacks on Mr Newman and the government were "unacceptable".
"That is why we chose to suspend his membership at the beginning of the process and we had to go forward from there and it culminated last night [Thursday] with him resigning from the party."
Speaking to Fairfax Media yesterday, Mr Palmer said he believed that while Mr Newman "has the support of the ministers he appointed", he didn't think the situation was "as clear cut" when it came to the support of the political party.
"I think the situation is there would have been a lot of [federal] seats won if Mr Newman's policies had been more in line with what the community values," Mr Palmer said.
"I don't think [the federal coalition] will win as many seats as they would have.
"But a week is a long time in politics. We will just have to wait and see."
Dr Williams said he believed the coalition "will still probably win" the federal election, although at this stage he didn't believe it would be by a landslide.
"There is a lot of uncertainty and all you can really say is federal Labor are back in the game, where not so long ago they were completely out of it," he said.
And the public turnaround in opinion in such a short time has created part of that back lash, he said.
"Even Gough Whitlam had a great first year; 1973 was a great year for him and it soured in 1974, but Mr Newman hasn't even had a year," Dr Williams said.
"Rob Borbidge is the only other one [to suffer a turnaround in public opinion] but he didn't win a majority, he won office, almost by accident.
"John Howard had a big swing back in 1998, but he had a decent 1996-97 before that.
"Malcolm Fraser had a honeymoon period. I can't think of another government where it soured so quickly."
Dr Williams said as the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Mr Newman was "virtually the President," and as a popularly elected leader with no real opposition he "ran Brisbane City Council like a tight ship".
However, the Westminster system in state and federal politics changed the playing ground.
"Basically that is part of the problem," he said.
"They chose a leader who had a strong personality, but was used to no real opposition and it sort of blew back in their faces a little in terms of his lack of experience, but he was brought to the job thinking he could run Queensland like City Hall, which you can't.
"It is too early to say if the experiment has failed. There is no doubt it has hit obstacles. Has the Newman gamble paid off? In terms of wining a landslide, of course it has. In terms of putting his stamp on the face of government, yes it has. In terms of confidence amongst the Queensland people, maybe not.
"We have rarely seen so many critics come out of the woodwork so soon.
"It has been incredibly fast moving. If you had said back in June that in November we would be talking about the Newman government being accident prone and in trouble, I would have said that is preposterous but here we are."


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The Village Voice's Michael Musto recently interviewed Paris Hilton, who talked about how she is dramatically changing her persona. Then today came news of Paris getting cast in the new Todd Solondz film. Todd Solondz, best known for Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness, specializes in the taboo and provocative. His movies have featured rape jokes, child molestation, racial slurs, homicidal housekeepers, and all-around suburban ultra dysfunction. Will Paris be the next Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener, the much-abused and maligned heroine of Dollhouse?The as-yet-untitled Solondz film that Paris has a role in is reportedly a "part sequel, part variation" on Happiness, and also stars Allison Janney, Charlotte Rampling, and Ciaran Hinds. The movie is also "a dramatic comedy about family against the backdrop of a war." So what kind of things will the notoriously perverse Solondz make Paris do? A poll, if you will.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut blasted off for six-month stay aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, a partnership unaffected by the political rancor and economic sanctions triggered by Russia's annexation of Crimea.
The Russian Soyuz rocket carrying cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson lifted off at 5:17 p.m. EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The trip to the space station, a $100 billion research laboratory that flies about 260 miles above Earth, was scheduled to take about six hours. However, an unknown problem caused the crew's Soyuz capsule to skip two planned steering maneuvers, delaying the crew's arrival until Thursday.
"The crew is in no danger. The Soyuz (is) equipped with plenty of consumables to go even beyond the next two days, should that be become necessary. Nobody expects that that will be the case," mission commentator Rob Navias said during a NASA Television broadcast.
Russian flight controllers expect to get more information about why the Soyuz's thrusters failed to fire when the capsule flies over ground communications stations later on Tuesday.
"Initial information indicates the problem may have been the spacecraft was not in the proper orientation for the burn," NASA said in a status report posted on its website.
Russia's state television channel Rossiya-24 quoted national space agency Roscosmos as saying the flight of the Soyuz spaceship was now taking place "in a reserve mode" after its orientation engines failed to ignite.
"It's all normal on board," it said.
Docking was tentatively retargeted for 7:58 p.m. EDT on Thursday.
Several hours before the docking, Soyuz will make a final emergency maneuver to enter the orbit of the space station, RIA news agency quoted a Russian space official as saying.
The arrival of Skvortsov, Artemyev and Swanson will return the station to a full six-member crew. The orbital outpost, a project of 15 nations, has been short-staffed since two other cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut returned to Earth on March 11.
The space station partnership, overseen by the United States and Russia, so far has been immunized from the political and economic fallout following Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
"We don't want to see political turmoil and it could ultimately get in the way of our spaceflight, but from the operator standpoint ... this is absolutely a non-issue for us," NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, who is due to fly to the station in May, said in a CBS News interview on March 18.
"I mean, we're three really good friends climbing into a Soyuz (capsule) to fly into space. All politics aside, there's no doubt it's going to work for us," Wiseman said.
The United States currently pays Russia more than $63 million per seat to fly its astronauts to and from the space station.
The Russian part of the station taps electricity generated by U.S.-owned and operated solar wing panels and supplements its ground-based communications with NASA's orbital satellite network, among other U.S.-provided services.
One of the first orders of business for the newly arriving station crewmembers will be to capture and berth a Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon cargo capsule, which is due to launch on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Two Russian spacewalks are planned during the crew's six-month mission, as well as two or three outings overseen by NASA.
(Additional reporting by Maria Kiselyova in Moscow and Dmitry Solovyov in Almaty; Editing by Eric Walsh)


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A tip from a social networking website led authorities to arrest a 37-year-old Katy man on charges of sexually abusing a pre-teen girl.
Richard Benjamin is charged with three counts of possession of child pornography and child sexual abuse and two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said Benjamin was arrested at his home Jan. 7. He is being held in the Harris County jail in lieu of $200,000 bail.
The investigation began when officials with Tumblr, a social networking website, recently noticed inappropriate activity on an account and reported it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said Sgt. J.D. Philpot of the Harris County Sheriff's Office.
Philpot said the center determined the account user had posted images about child abuse and chatted in graphic detail about sexually abusing a child.
The center contacted local authorities and the Houston-Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, a multi-agency group, investigated the case.
Philpot said the Tumblr account was traced to an e-mail address that turned out to be associated with Benjamin.
When he was arrested, officials said, Benjamin admitted he had sexually abused the girl and claimed to be grooming her for more sexual abuse. Investigators said they found sexually inappropriate images of the child at his home, and numerous images of child pornography were found on his cellphone.


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John Noble's Walter has always been the best part of the already great Fringe, and this video shows why. As a special treat, the Fringe team collected their favorite "Walterisms" from the show's four seasons and showed it at their panel.
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A Mount Sinai School of Medicine study has found that patients often exhibit a significant decrease in weight and body mass index (BMI) after undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty). The study is the first of its type to correct for the annual increase in BMI typically found in North Americans between the ages of 29 to 73 years. The study was recently published in Orthopedics.
A total of 196 Mount Sinai patients who had knee or hip replacement from 2005 — 2007 to treat osteoarthritis were randomly selected for the study. Mean patient age at surgery was 67.56 years, with about 65 percent female and 35 percent male. Of this group, 19.9 percent demonstrated a clinically significant decrease in weight (defined as the loss of five percent or more of body weight) and BMI following knee or hip replacement. In addition, the mean weight of the group dropped from 79.59 kg (175.47 lbs) to 78.13 kg (172.24 lbs) after surgery.
Significant BMI decrease was found to be greater in knee replacement patients (21.5 percent) than hip replacement patients (16.9 percent). Patients who were obese prior to surgery, with BMI greater than 30, were the most likely to experience significant post-surgery weight reductions.
"Total joint arthroplasties are performed with the intent of relieving a patient's pain and disability," said the study's lead author Michael Bronson, MD, Chief of Joint Replacement Surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. "Both total knee patients and total hip patients experienced a statistically significant and clinically significant corrected weight loss following surgery, which indicates a healthier overall lifestyle."
The incidence of overweight and obese adults has been steadily increasing over the past five decades in the U.S. Lifestyle modification, consisting of changes in patterns of dietary intake, exercise, and other behaviors, is considered the cornerstone of overweight and obesity management. Overweight patients often argue that their osteoarthritis limits their mobility and ability to exercise. Thus, patients may feel frustrated that they are unable to lose weight, and are often hopeful that losing weight would be easier postoperatively.
These results suggest that patients have improved weight parameters when compared to North American adults. Dr. Bronson and his joint replacement team at Mount Sinai believe that additional studies of total knee and total hip arthroplasty postoperative patients, which also incorporate nutritional guidance and long-term fitness goals, may show even more encouraging results.
About The Mount Sinai Medical Center
The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation's oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation's top 20 hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.
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According to Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com, the Toronto Blue Jays are kicking some tires. This year, they expect to be buyers, so they've called the Phillies to ask about two of their soon-to-be free agents, Cole Hamels and Shane Victorino.
Now, Rosenthal warns that nothing is close or even close to likely. The Blue Jays understand the Phillies could be in dire straits soon with a few of their players, namely Hamels and Victorino. So, they've done their job and called.
I highly doubt the Phillies will trade Hamels in season. Victorino is more of a possibility, but nothing is even being considered at this point, in my opinion. The Phillies are still hoping Chase Utley and Ryan Howard can give them something in the near future and help turn around the fortunes of the team.
It is always interesting when Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopolous calls. He's a shrewd mover as a GM and the Jays do have good, young talent. How much they would be willing to part with is the question. And at this point, can the Phillies even afford to sell two of their most popular – not to mention best – players for prospects. We saw how well that went over with the Cliff Lee deal.
Rosenthal brought up another interesting thought. He says that if the Phillies dwindle out of the race in the NL, they could tell Hamels "Look, we'll deal you to the Jays, recoup some prospects, and you get another shot at the playoff. Then, in November we will absolutely re-sign you." Hmm…
That said, dont expect anything to happen.


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Call to Greater Responsibility
Feb. 12 issue preview of new cardinals' ceremony Feb. 18.
Pope Benedict XVI will soon bestow the cardinals' biretta on 22 distinguished Churchmen, two of whom are American archbishops.
Cardinal-designates Timothy Dolan and Edwin O'Brien, respectively the archbishop of New York and the grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, were among those to be formally admitted into the College of Cardinals at a consistory in Rome Feb. 18.
As well as awarding the "red hat" at a papal Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, the Pope will also give them a ring (a seal of their "nuptial covenant" with the Church) and assign them a titular church in or near the city of Rome in accordance with ancient tradition.
"The red indicates blood and a readiness to give our lives for the Gospel," explained Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. "It's not that we want to be killed, but that we are ready, if necessary, to give our lives for the Gospel."
Once enrolled into the college, a cardinal becomes one of three ranks: cardinal bishop (the most senior and always a bishop), cardinal priest (generally bishops of the Church's most important dioceses) or cardinal deacon (either officials of the Roman Curia or those over 80 years of age).
A cardinal's first duty is to be an adviser to the Pope, available to offer the Holy Father counsel whenever necessary, either individually or in groups. This includes attending further meetings of the College of Cardinals while continuing, or assuming, other duties, whether they be leading an archdiocese or running a dicastery of the Roman Curia. For this reason, the College of Cardinals is sometimes likened in political terms to being a kind of "papal Senate," or the Pope's personal cabinet of ministers.
"[Being cardinal] is a responsibility, not a picnic," Cardinal Arinze explained. "It is a call towards greater responsibility in the Church, and it's a sign of the Pope's good will."
If under the age of 80, a cardinal also takes on arguably his most lofty and significant role: to elect the next pope. And once he receives a red hat, he himself becomes eligible to be elected as the successor of Peter. (In theory, any priest can be, though almost always he has been chosen from the College of Cardinals.) This is why a cardinal is sometimes referred to as a "prince of the Church," though it's not a term many cardinals themselves use.
"We don't like that [term]," Cardinal Arinze said. "The Gospel gives the idea of service; it is the model that Christ gave us. So even though in worldly terminology people look on cardinals sometimes as princes, we should look on ourselves as servants of the Gospel and of the people of God."
Cardinal Renato Martino, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, agreed, but added that the terminology is based on the inevitability that every cardinal, of whatever age, may become the next pope.
"In international protocol, all cardinals are 'crown princes,'" Cardinal Martino explained. "And, in this case, the 'crown prince' is not just one, as any one of the cardinals can and will be elected pope."
Cardinal Martino also stressed that the "prince" motif is on account of the pope being "a head of state as well as being head of the Church."
Asked what went through Cardinal Arinze's mind when Blessed Pope John Paul II elevated him to the college in 1985, the Nigerian cardinal said: "The good will of the Holy Father, the honor done to my country and the call to work to be more involved."
Cardinal Martino stressed that the appointment is a "free choice of the pope," so "you cannot aspire to be a cardinal."
He added: "When a Churchman is appointed to a post in the Curia, which has generally been served by a cardinal, there is the supposition that sometimes the pope can appoint you a cardinal — but it's not a mathematical certainty."
For this reason, Cardinal Martino said, when appointed, "You feel really surprised. I would also say confused and obliged to make a review of your life."
The Italian cardinal, who was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003 after serving 16 years as the Holy See's permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, stressed that the cardinal-making consistory is not an ordination or consecration.
"It's not sacramental; rather, it is, let's say, bureaucratic, because you're called to a function," he explained, adding that most cardinals are already consecrated bishops or archbishops of dioceses around the world.
Asked whether he felt it was like a culmination of his life as a priest, Cardinal Martino answered: "Yes, because in my service to the Church — I have now served about 55 years in the priesthood — I would say that I never decided what I wanted to do; because, for me, only one thing mattered: to be available to do what the good Lord wanted from me."
Cardinal Arinze said being made a cardinal was "in the same line" as his vocation to the priesthood.
"A priest is ordained to celebrate the sacred mysteries, to preach the word of God, and to gather the people of God together," he said. "So it is in the same direction — only with more responsibilities."
The importance of responsibility is a theme Benedict XVI has often repeated to new cardinals, as is unity. Addressing new cardinals in 2007, the Holy Father said they are called to be "profoundly united" with the successor of Peter, and, under his guidance, "they must remain in the lordship of Christ, thinking and working in accordance with the logic of the cross." It is never easy or predictable, he added, but stressed that it depends on "fidelity to the divine kingship of crucified Love."
Edward Pentin writes from Rome.
The Register went to press prior to the consistory.
We will have coverage at NCRegister.com
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The level of insolvencies in the automotive sector is low compared to other Italian industries, and business failures are expected not to increase in 2017.
- The rebound in production and sales continues
- Businesses' profit margins are expected to remain stable
- Insolvencies are expected to level off in 2017
In 2016 the rebound of the Italian automotive sector continued, with a 8.8% production increase year-on-year, according to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers OICA. The surge was driven by increasing domestic demand and buyoant exports (64% of vehicles produced in 2016 were sold abroad). The rebound in domestic demand is mainly due to a modest economic recovery, coupled with low interest rates, lower fuel prices, easier access to consumer credit and appealing promotional campaigns by car manufacturers.
Registrations or sales of new vehicles increased 18.8% to 2 million units, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA). Growth continued in 2017, with passenger cars registrations increasing 8.1% and commercial vehicles registrations rising 7.8% year-on-year between January and May 2017. The outlook for H2 of 2017 and 2018 remains positive, as there is still future potential for sales growth of new vehicles replacing obsolete models: 47% of cars in Italy still do not meet the Euro 4 emission standards, and the average age of the vehicle fleet amounts to 10.4 years.
However, despite the increase, both production and domestic sales remain below pre-crisis level (in 2008 more than 2.4 million cars were sold). The surge in production and registrations since 2014 must be seen against sharp decreases between 2009 and 2013. At the same time, the economic rebound in Italy remains modest (GDP is forecast to increase 1.1% in 2017 and 1.0% in 2018), and business and consumer sentiment is prone to setbacks due to potential political uncertainty and doubts about the stability of the financial system.
With the steep decline in car sales and production in the years before 2014, many of Italy's manufacturers and car part suppliers recorded decreasing profit margins. Especially smaller businesses saw their equity ratios, solvency and liquidity weaken. Thanks to the recovery, the surviving supplier businesses have registered increasing profit margins, which are expected to remain stable in 2017.
On average, payments in the Italian automotive industry range between 60 to 90 and 120 to 150 days, depending on the end-buyer and whether working capital requirements can be obtained from banks or suppliers. Generally, payments are quicker when the end-buyer is a foreign company. Payment experience has been satisfying over the past two years, and non-payments are not expected to increase in the coming months. The level of automotive insolvencies is low compared to other industries, and business failures are expected to level off in 2017.
Considering the good performance of the industry in 2016 and the still favourable outlook for 2017, we have upgraded the automotive sector performance assessment from "Fair" to "Good" in early 2017. Our underwriting stance for the industry is generally open. We are more cautious with components manufacturers, who have low bargaining power against car manufacturers, and with tyre distributors/wholesalers due to increased competition and consolidation in this segment.


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Rave reviews: And stellar box-office for <I>Agent
NEWS- Rave reviews: And stellar box-office for Agent
Barry Sisson got the treat of a lifetime in January when the first film he financed, The Station Agent, won three awards at the Sundance Film Festival– including the coveted Audience Award. Now the film is earning a new kind of audience accolade: crowded theaters.
Shown at just three theaters in its first weekend, The Station Agent delivered $18,500 per site gross– an "impressive" average, according to boxofficeguru.com. (For comparison, during that same October 3-5 weekend, America's #1 smash, School of Rock, starring Jack Black, took in $7,728 per site.)
"It's quite exciting," says Sisson, a Charlottesville resident. "It's cool stuff."
Audiences aren't the only fans. Roger Ebert calls The Station Agent a "treasure," Rolling Stone calls it "an absolute stunner," and the New York Times declares it "delicate, thoughtful, and often hilarious."
Pretty good for a film about a lonely dwarf holed up in an abandoned train station. Pretty good for a first-time movie mogul whose previous experience consisted of 25 years in the security business.
As revealed in a Hook story last winter [Facetime, "Sundancing: Sisson seizes the celluloid dream," February 6, 2003], the Sundance standing ovation had barely stopped when studio chief Harvey Weinstein flew out to Utah to sign the picture to Miramax.
Last week, however, Weinstein got waylaid in L.A. for the Kill Bill premiere, Sisson says, and missed The Station Agent's September 30 premiere at New York's Lincoln Center. However, Marisa Tomei, Ethan Hawke, and Candace Bergen made it to the red-carpet event.
On opening day in New York, the Times critic declared that The Station Agent, written and directed by newcomer Tom McCarthy, is "the kind of appetizing movie you want to share with others." So kids under 17 better bring a parent; the picture earned an "R" rating.
"I was a little surprised," says Sisson. "I think there are two or three scenes where they're smoking a joint." (The Motion Picture Association of America also noticed some vulgar language.)
"We're not unhappy about an 'R,'" says Sisson. "This isn't a film teenagers will understand; you have to have a little life under your belt."
Sisson is also excited about his latest completed project, Charlie's Party. An "off-beat sexual comedy" written by two British women, the film includes Sabrina Lloyd, who famously lost out to the blonde on the NBC's Stuckeyville-based series, Ed.
While Charlie's Party was shot over the summer in New York City and Connecticut, Sisson now wants to make films in Central Virginia, and he hopes to line up $2 million from local investors (including himself) to shoot his next two features.
"I believe that if you keep the budget under a million, and you make a good film," he says, "you can probably make a profit."
In an industry swelled by fat budgets and fat egos, Sisson's quick learning curve impressed Virginia Film Festival director Richard Herskowitz, an advocate of in-state movie-making.
"He really immersed himself in the production business," says Herskowitz. "He has made himself as much of a player in the independent film world as anyone out there."
Sisson won't reveal the budgets for the first two films he financed, but the fiscally conservative producer will say this: "I don't shoot films for over a million dollars."
Barry Sisson
Peter Dinklage and Patricia Clarkson in The Station Agent .


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CipherCloud Lands $30 Million From Andreessen Horowitz
One of the biggest ongoing concerns in the adoption of cloud computing options by large enterprises is security. When you get right down to it, moving data to a cloud application largely means putting it, or copies of it, outside the trusted corporate firewall.
There aren't many ways to alleviate that concern, but cloud companies, whether service providers like Amazon Web Services or application providers like Salesforce.com, have a pretty strong motivation to do everything they can to lock down their systems and prevent intrusions. And yet the concerns linger.
CipherCloud is a start-up that has come up with an interesting solution to the problem, which comes down to this: Its customers place a secure gateway — it's a virtual appliance that runs on the customer's own on-premise hardware — that encrypts data that gets placed in the cloud. It works with several widely used cloud services as well, including Amazon, Salesforce.com's Chatter and Force.com, Google's Gmail and Microsoft's Office 365. It has 40 enterprise customers and 1.2 million end users.
The company said today that it has secured $30 million in VC funding in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Also investing in the round are Index Ventures and T-Systems, the venture capital arm of the German telecommunications concern Deutsche Telekom. AH had previously been among CipherCloud's seed investors.
John M. Jack, a newly named board partner at AH, will join CipherCloud's board. Jack is the former CEO of Fortify Software, which he sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2010. Before that, he was CEO at Covalent, which in 2008 was acquired by SpringSource, which was itself ultimately acquired by VMware in 2009. And before that, he was COO at Vantive, which was acquired by PeopleSoft in 1999, and is now part of Oracle.
Jack said one of the things that impressed him and the team at AH was the fact that users never really know their data is being encrypted as it comes and goes from the cloud applications. "They use their applications as they normally would with no impact to them," he said. "Rarely do you see a company like CipherCloud that's taking advantage of such a huge market opportunity."
CipherCloud was started by Pravin Kothari, a founder of ArcSight, a security company acquired by HP in 2010 for $1.5 billion. He said one key trick that CipherCloud has up its sleeve is that in the act of carrying out the encryption, that application up in the cloud doesn't break. Sometimes encryption will break the application, because it messes up the formatting of the data that the application is expecting, and also interferes with the ability to carry out basic things that users want to do on their cloud data, like searching. "We have some patents pending on ways to encrypt the data while preserving the formatting, and without interfering with searching and other tasks that users typically do," Kothari told me.
The end result is that companies can get the benefit of shifting to cloud applications — which brings with it a lot of cost savings — without having to worry as much about data security. Cloud providers themselves can't see the data, because the customer remains in control of their encryption keys.
The company can't name any customers — security companies never do — but its customers include two of the five biggest banks. It has customers in eight countries and 10 different vertical industries.
CipherCloud is, by my count, AH's third security investment. Founder Marc Andreessen hinted at the firm's pivot toward security investments in an appearance at D: All Things Digital in 2011. Days later, it made an investment in Silver Tail Systems, which has since been acquired by EMC . Its other security investment is Bromium.


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Lay out six matches in the way depicted in the illustration. The objective is to shift one match without displacing the others so that the resulting arrangement would represent an arithmetical fraction equal to 1. You are not allowed to move the match forming the horizontal fraction bar.
In the 1916 issue of Strand Magazine, Henry Ernest Dudeney wrote that a French correspondent sent him this matchstick puzzle but the solution was not given to him. Hence, he solved it himself.
Dudeney said that he's certain that the solution to this puzzle was the same as his solution.
You can see that one of the I in VII is shifted to form a square root or radical sign. The square root of 1 is 1 and 1 divided 1 is equal to 1.
This is one of the best "easy" matchstick puzzles I have ever seen. I'm not sure if I would be able to figure this out if someone challenges me to solve it without prior knowledge of the solution.


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== Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions (MUED) ==
=== Author ===
Priscila de Aquino
* Katholieke Universiteit Leuven & Universite Catholique de Louvain - CP3
* email@example.com
=== Description of the model & references ===
One popular aproach to solve the Hierarchy Problem of the Standard Model is to extend space-time to higher dimensions. In this framework, the usual four-dimensional space-time is contained in a four-dimensional brane embedded in a large structure with N additional dimensions, the bulk.
Here, we shall focus on the Universal Extra Dimensional theory, in which the usual Standard Model particles are free to propagate in the bulk. As a consequence, these particles will be seem on the effective theory as a tower of N 4-dimensional particles with the same quantum numbers, but with increasing masses. This is called the Kaluza-Klein tower. Momentum conservation in the 5-dimensional space-time generates a conserved Kaluza-Klein number, which implies that different Kaluza-Klein modes can not mix with eachother.
In this implementation, a theory with five dimensions is considered, in which the fifth dimension is spatial and compactified on a S1/Z2 orbifold of radius R. We start from the most general five-dimensional Lagrangian. FeynRules derives the four-dimensional lagrangian automatically by imposing dimensional reduction and integratig out the extra-coordinate y.
The minimal Universal extra dimensional model is given in:
* [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v66/i5/e056006 Physical Review D 66 (2002) 056006]: H-C. Cheng, K.T. Matchev, M. Schmaltz, ''Bosonic Supersymmetry? Getting fooled at the LHC.''
This implementation was based in another existing implementation in ''CalcHEP'':
* [http://home.fnal.gov/~kckong/mued/mued.ps mued.ps]: A. Datta, K. Kong, K. T. Matchev, ''Minimal Universal Extra Dimensions in'' CalcHEP ''/CompHEP.''
The masses of Kaluza-Klein particles are computed via 1 loop:
* [http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v66/i3/e036005 Physical Review D 66 (2002) 036005]: H.-C. Cheng, K. T. Matchev, M. Schmaltz, ''Radiative Corrections to Kaluza-Klein Masses.''
=== Model files & extensions ===
'''The MUED implementation:'''
* Main FeynRules files (as a tar-ball): [attachment:MUED.tar.gz MUED.tar.gz].
* Run mued.fr. This is the main file. All the other files are called by this main file.
* Example of a Mathematica® notebook loading the model and the parameters: [attachment:MUED.nb MUED.nb].
=== Instructions ===
The MUED is implemented in '''unitary gauge'''.
* The switch {{{FeynmanGauge}}} (future devlopments) must thus be set to {{{False}}},
* To run it in !CalcHEP the switch {{{FeynmanGauge}}} must be set to {{{True}}} when asking the !CalcHEP output, and then to {{{False}}} before any run.
* In !MadGraph, the maximal number of particles must be increased to run the model:
* Increase the value of {{{max_particles}}} in {{{params.inc}}} in the {{{MadGraphII}}} directory from =2*'''7-1= to =2'''*8-1=
* Remove all excecutables in the {{{MadGraphII}}} directory ( =rm -rf *.o=).
* recompile !MadGraph by typing {{{make}}} in the !MadGraph main directory.
=== Validation ===
In order to validate our implementation, we have checked 118 processes using a center-of-mass energy of 1400 GeV. It was done the following way:
* '''Comparison of the built-in Madgraph Standard-Model and FeynRules generated''' '''Madgraph''' '''MUED for Standard Model''' '''processes.''' This comparison was done using squared matrix element at given phase-space points.
* '''Comparison of the existing''' '''CalcHEP''' '''MUED (CH-ST) with the FeynRules generated ones in''' '''CalcHEP''' *,* '''Madgraph''' '''and Sherpa: CH-FR, MG-FR and SH-FR,''' through the calculation of several '''2 → 2''' cross-sections. All the checks performed were conclusive.
* Validation Table - SM + Fermions (Cross sections given in pb):
* Validation Table - Gauge (Cross sections given in pb):
-- Main.PriscilaAquino - 15 Jun 2009


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